0 a large company or group of companies that is controlled together as a single organization -- 大公司;集團公司
a multinational corporation 跨國公司
the British Broadcasting Corporation 英國廣播公司
She didn't want to work for a big corporation where everything was so impersonal. 她不想在大公司工作,那裡一點人情味都沒有。
1 the organization in a particular town or city that is responsible for services such as cleaning roads -- 市政當局,地方當局
a municipal corporation 市政當局
The film peeks behind the scenes of a multinational corporation.
Another interesting example is transitive ownership and control of corporations.
In addition, the record reveals that mortgagees could be both land corporations and private persons.
Managers usually design and oversee these roles and responsibilities in corporate organisations, multinational corporations and state-owned enterprises, where ownership is separated from control.
Even under limited liability, therefore, shareholders of corporations that take greater risks will be "penalized" with higher interest rates on corporate borrowing.
A more intimate term is needed to describe the persons whose acts are attributed to the corporation.
Second, the large corporations initiated new mass production techniques that destroyed the market value of the craft skills upon which the union shop strategy depended.